The Serratia gene cluster encoding biosynthesis of the red antibiotic, prodigiosin, shows species- and strain-dependent genome context variation

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3547-3560

  Harris, Abigail K P ^a   Williamson, Neil R ^a   Slater, Holly ^a   Cox, Anthony ^a   Abbasi, Sophia ^a   Foulds, Ian ^a   Simonsen, Henrik T ^a   Leeper, Finian J ^a   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CONTIG; GENE PRODUCT; KANAMYCIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PRODIGIOSIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PRODIGIOSIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERRATIA; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; VARIATION (GENETICS);

SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SERRATIA SP.; SERRATIA SP. ATCC 39006; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 9144222164     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27222-0     Document Type: Article

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